Recaps

Lin Ming gave Ya Fei the Bodhi Primordial Beginning Pill he had refined for her, persuading her to accept it so she could keep pace with him. After taking it, Ya Fei’s talent and cultivation transformed, leaving her at the Dou Zong level with a renewed resolve to grow stronger beside Lin Ming.

• Lin Ming showed Ya Fei the Bodhi Primordial Beginning Pill and explained that he had refined it especially to improve her talent and potential.
• Ya Fei initially refused the precious pill, but Lin Ming urged her to trust him and accept it so she could stay by his side.
• Ya Fei took the pill in a quiet room while Lin Ming protected her, and its power cleansed and remade her body, meridians, bones, and soul.
• Ya Fei’s cultivation surged from Da Dou Shi through Dou Spirit, Dou Wang, and Dou Emperor to Dou Zong.
• Ya Fei embraced Lin Ming and thanked him, then vowed to work hard and become strong enough to stand beside him.

After Ya Fei emerged as a Dou Ancestor, Lin Ming announced that he would refine Tier 8 Marrow Cleansing Pills for the Mittel Family’s elders and publicly demonstrate the process in three days. The chapter ended with news of the event spreading through Jia Ma Holy City and the Alchemist Guild.

• Lin Ming and Ya Fei left the Quiet Room, and the elders witnessed Ya Fei’s stable breakthrough to the Dou Ancestor Realm.
• Lin Ming credited Ya Fei’s own accumulation and praised the Alchemist Guild for supporting the Mittel Family.
• Lin Ming promised to refine one Tier 8 Marrow Cleansing Pill each for Elder Hai, Great Elder Teng Shan, Grandpa Liu, and Master Toso.
• Lin Ming decided to refine the pills publicly in the Imperial Capital’s central square and invited Chairman Fa Ma and the Alchemist Guild to observe.
• Elder Hai and Great Elder Teng Shan arranged the event, and news of the public pill refinement spread throughout Jia Ma Holy City.

Lin Ming began a public pill-refining demonstration at Jia Ma Holy City's Central Plaza, drawing alchemists and leaders from across the empire to watch him prepare Tier 8 Medicinal Pills. The chapter ended with him steadily refining four batches at once as the crowd watched through the night and into the following days.

• Fa Ma received an invitation from the Mittel Family and ordered the guild's alchemists above the third grade to attend Lin Ming's demonstration.
• The plaza filled with spectators, including Gu He, Jia Xingtian, Mu Chen, Nalan Jie, and Lin Ming's relatives and protectors.
• Lin Ming appeared on the platform, summoned the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and revealed four sets of rare medicinal materials.
• Lin Ming produced a Dark Purple Flame, which Fa Ma and Gu He recognized as a Heavenly Flame.
• Lin Ming used more than a hundred streams of flame to refine medicinal materials simultaneously, while four masses of medicinal essence formed inside the cauldron.

Lin Ming completed four Marrow Cleansing Pills and used his Soul Power to raise their spirituality, triggering four Three-color Pill Lightning tribulations. He erased all the thunderclouds with a single word, collected the pills, and left the stunned crowd behind.

• After three days of refinement, four Pill Prototypes formed in the Myriad Beast Cauldron and summoned One-color Pill Lightning.
• Lin Ming infused the four pills with Soul Power, transforming them into stronger three-colored pills and escalating the tribulation to four Three-color Thunderclouds.
• As the crowd panicked at the threat of destruction, Lin Ming said, "Destroy," and made all four thunderclouds vanish instantly.
• Lin Ming collected the pills in Warm Jade Bottles while the crowd, Gu He, Fa Ma, Elder Hai, and Ya Fei reacted with awe and relief.
• Lin Ming vanished from the platform, leaving the gathered spectators to spread stories of his power.

Lin Ming gave Elder Hai, Great Elder Teng Shan, Grandpa Liu, and Master Toso Tier 8 Three-color Pill Lightning Marrow Cleansing Pills and cultivation methods and Dou Techniques suited to each of them. The four elders left with renewed hopes of advancing their cultivation and strengthening the Mittel Family.

• Lin Ming gave the four elders Marrow Cleansing Pills and explained that they could cleanse old ailments, strengthen their foundations, and aid their cultivation.
• Lin Ming gave Elder Hai an Earth Tier High-grade ice cultivation method and matching ice-element Dou Techniques.
• Lin Ming gave Master Toso the Flame Dealing Technique, which let him fuse Beast Flames toward creating a flame close to a Heavenly Flame.
• Lin Ming gave Grandpa Liu the Earth Tier Peak-grade Wutu Kunyuan Skill and the Creation Fist and Profound Green Leg Dou Techniques.
• Lin Ming gave Great Elder Teng Shan a Wood Attribute cultivation method and an Earth Tier High-grade Dou Skill, then explained how the pills and new methods could help the elders advance.

After a month of cultivation, the Mittel Family’s leaders grew far stronger, and Lin Ming gathered Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian’s party to open a hidden passage to the Middle Continent. The wormhole stabilized beneath the family estate, guarded by the Frost Puppet, as the group prepared to travel through it.

• Grandpa Liu and Master Toso broke through to Dou Emperor, Teng Shan advanced to Seven-Star Dou Emperor, and Elder Hai reached Two-Star Dou Ancestor.
• Qing Lin arrived after arranging affairs at the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Xiao Yi Xian came with Miao Miao after settling matters in the Poison Sect.
• Lin Ming led them and the Mittel Family elders to the underground Forbidden Area, where he activated the West Dragon King’s spatial coordinate scroll between two stone pillars.
• A stable Spatial Vortex opened toward the Middle Continent, and Lin Ming stationed the Frost Puppet to guard the passage and the family.

Lin Ming and his companions left the Mittel Family through its new Space Wormhole and returned to the Five Elements Sect. Elder Yao welcomed them back, and Lin Ming gave him Saint Soul Marrow to help him break through the Half-Saint Barrier.

• Lin Ming entrusted the Mittel Family's affairs to Elder Hai, Tengshan, Grandpa Liu, and Master Toso before departing with Ya Fei, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Miao Miao through the Space Wormhole.
• Elder Hai and the others watched the group leave, then resealed the Forbidden Area, hopeful that the wormhole would connect the family to the Middle Continent's opportunities.
• Elder Yao sensed the wormhole activate and hurried to welcome Lin Ming and the others back to the Five Elements Sect.
• Lin Ming noticed Elder Yao's unstable aura and gave him half of the remaining Saint Soul Marrow to aid his attempt to reach the Half-Saint Realm.

Elder Yao refined the Saint Soul Marrow and entered the Half-Saint Realm while Lin Ming spent ten days preparing high-grade pills for the Space Trading Fair. With two days remaining before the fair, Lin Ming led his companions toward the Void Desert to compete for rare treasures, including the final Pure Lotus Demonic Flame Fragment Map.

• Elder Yao handed the Five Elements Sect's affairs to Xiao Yi Xian and secluded himself to refine the Saint Soul Marrow and pursue the Half-Saint Realm.
• Lin Ming prepared for the Space Trading Fair by refining high-grade pills as Elder Yao's growing Saintly Might spread through the sect.
• Two days before the fair, Elder Yao succeeded in entering the Half-Saint Realm and Lin Ming emerged from his alchemy chamber with several newly refined pills.
• Lin Ming gathered Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, and Qing Lin and announced that they would leave for the fair in the Void Desert.
• Lin Ming used Space Power to transport the group from the Five Elements Sect toward the northeastern region of Middle Continent.

Lin Ming and his companions reached the Void Desert to attend the Space Trading Fair, a secret gathering protected by three powerful sects and governed by strict rules. After sensing numerous powerful experts hidden in the desert, they found the spatial Black Hole entrance and prepared to enter.

• The chapter explained that the Earth Line Sect, the Empty Profound Gate, and Treasure Appraisal Mountain jointly organized the Space Trading Fair and enforced its binding rules against theft and violence.
• Lin Ming, Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei arrived at the edge of the Void Desert after following the fair's coordinates.
• Lin Ming sensed powerful auras beneath the desert, and the group detected more than a hundred experts, including several Half Sages.
• Elder Yao told Ya Fei that even greater experts gathered inside the trading space, and Lin Ming led the group through the sandstorms.
• The five reached a hollow among the dunes and saw a vast spatial Black Hole that other experts were entering.

Lin Ming and his companions entered the Black Hole into Space Town, where powerful experts gathered for the Space Trading Fair. Elder Yao explained the venue, and Lin Ming led the group through its treasure-filled streets to search the stalls before the auction.

• Lin Ming, Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei entered the Black Hole after other experts and passed through its spatial scan.
• The group emerged in Space Town, a busy trading venue suspended beneath a gray canopy with unstable Spatial Fluctuations.
• Elder Yao explained that the Earth Line Sect and the Empty Profound Gate had created the trading space and warned that its rare goods came at steep prices.
• Lin Ming chose a street and led the group to inspect the stalls while they searched for treasures suited to their interests.
• The group saw a dazzling array of Dou Skills, cultivation methods, medicinal ingredients, Magic Cores, weapons, ores, and other rare goods offered by powerful stall owners.

Lin Ming found rare treasures on the market streets but passed on them because their prices were too high. When Qing Lin's Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent Soul reacted to ancient bone fragments at a shabby stall, Lin Ming began negotiating for them, and the old stall owner demanded a tier 8 pill.

• Lin Ming examined treasures on the first two streets and decided not to trade because the owners demanded too much.
• Qing Lin felt the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent Soul become intensely restless and pointed Lin Ming toward a stall with dark bone fragments.
• Lin Ming sensed an ancient, powerful will within the bones and suspected their source was a serpent beast with a bloodline older than Qing Lin's soul.
• Lin Ming approached the old stall owner and asked about the bone fragments while pretending interest in the nearby Void Floating Stone.
• The old man asked for a tier 8 pill that had drawn five-colored pill lightning for the bones, then refused to bargain.

Lin Ming traded for three Ancient Beast Bone fragments that resonated with Qing Lin’s Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent Soul, then discovered a black stone that made his Inner World tremble. The chapter ended with Lin Ming examining the mysterious stone at a merchant’s stall.

• Lin Ming bargained with the Gray-robed Old Man and exchanged a movement skill scroll, medicinal herbs, and a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill for the Void Floating Stone and three Ancient Beast Bone fragments.
• Lin Ming gave the bones to Qing Lin, whose Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent Soul calmed and resonated with them.
• Lin Ming and his companions continued exploring the Space Trading Fair while he searched the stalls with his Soul Perception.
• Lin Ming’s Inner World shook and guided him toward an inconspicuous black stone at a nearby stall.
• Lin Ming learned that the bearded stall owner had found the stone in a deep magma layer and could not damage it with Dou Venerate-level flames.
• Lin Ming picked up the extremely heavy, icy stone and found that neither Dou Qi nor Soul Power could penetrate it.

At the Space Trading Fair, Lin Ming exchanged a bottle of Clear Heart Pills for a seemingly ordinary black stone and discovered that it strengthened and nourished his Inner World. He recognized it as a possible Chaos Origin Stone, told his companions it was an immeasurably valuable origin object, and set off to explore the fair further.

• Lin Ming examined the black stone at a stall and offered the bearded stall owner a bottle of Seventh Grade Low-level Clear Heart Pills for it.
• The bearded man accepted the trade, and Lin Ming put the stone into his Storage Ring without drawing attention.
• Lin Ming brought the stone into his Inner World, where contact with its chaos-colored Dou Qi awakened golden patterns and released heavy, dark yellow energy that strengthened and expanded the world.
• Lin Ming suspected the stone was a Chaos Origin Stone or an ancient world's origin fragment, and realized it could greatly improve his cultivation foundation.
• Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei asked Lin Ming about the stone, and he described it as an immeasurably valuable origin object without revealing his Inner World.
• Lin Ming and his companions continued exploring the Space Trading Fair, eager to find more hidden opportunities.

Lin Ming encountered Yao Chen and Xiao Yan at a stall in the fifth street and reunited with them after a long separation. Both sides were shocked by how much the other had advanced, and the chapter ended with them exchanging greetings as old acquaintances.

• Lin Ming sensed familiar auras near a stall and recognized Yao Chen and Xiao Yan, whose strength had reached peak Seven-Star Dou Venerate.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan recognized Lin Ming and were stunned by his unfathomable aura and apparent power.
• Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei reacted with surprise to Xiao Yan's strength and ancient bloodline.
• Lin Ming greeted Yao Chen and Xiao Yan, easing the tension between the two groups.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan returned Lin Ming's greetings, and Xiao Yan admitted that he admired him.

Lin Ming spotted a disguised Nine-Colored Raw Stone at a shabby stall and negotiated with its owner to trade two Tier 8 Medicinal Pills for it. He secured the stone, which could eventually help a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python evolve into a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python.

• After parting from Lin Ming, Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan not to become complacent, and Xiao Yan vowed to catch up to Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming exchanged medicinal pills for two rare ingredients that could help Xiao Yi Xian cultivate her Calamity Poison Body.
• On the seventh street, Lin Ming recognized a Seven-Colored Raw Stone as the core of a Nine-Colored Raw Stone.
• Lin Ming haggled with the drowsy old stall owner, offering a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill with Three-color Pill Lightning and one with One-color Pill Lightning.
• The old man accepted the offer, and Lin Ming took the Nine-Colored Raw Stone and stored it in his Storage Ring.

Lin Ming led his companions to the Ancient Treasure Pavilion, where an invitation and protective cloaks allowed them into its hidden depths. The group reached the sealed bronze doors of the true trading venue, and Lin Ming pushed them open and stepped inside.

• Lin Ming left the outer streets with Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei and headed toward the Ancient Treasure Pavilion.
• Elder Yao revealed that the pavilion’s two gatekeepers were Six-Star Dou Venerates and explained that entry required an invitation from the three hosting sects.
• Lin Ming presented the group’s red jade invitation, and the gatekeepers welcomed them and provided cloaks that concealed their identities and blocked soul probes.
• The five cloaked companions followed a gray-robed attendant through the dim pavilion to a massive bronze door at the end of a corridor.
• Lin Ming pushed open the bronze door and stepped toward the hidden trading venue as powerful auras and light emerged from within.

Lin Ming and his companions entered the Ancient Treasure Pavilion’s crowded Space Trading Fair and took precautions against the powerful experts around them. Old Man Baoshan appeared, revealed his peak Nine-Revolution Dou Venerate strength, and opened the fair, leaving the cloaked attendees eagerly awaiting the first treasure.

• Lin Ming led Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei into the ancient hall and sat with them in a secluded corner.
• Lin Ming warned the group that their conversations might be overheard, and Elder Yao created a spatial barrier to conceal their communication.
• A bell summoned everyone’s attention as Old Man Baoshan appeared above the central platform, and Lin Ming recognized his peak Nine-Revolution Dou Venerate cultivation.
• Old Man Baoshan enclosed the platform in a spatial barrier and announced that the Space Trading Fair had begun.

Old Man Baoshan opened the Space Trading Fair by auctioning a pair of Heaven Demon Phoenix wings, which a cloaked bidder acquired with a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill bearing Four-color Pill Lightning. Lin Ming watched the quiet exchange, and the fair moved on after the wings were sold.

• Old Man Baoshan revealed a pair of well-preserved demon phoenix wings and explained their value as materials for a Flying Fighting Skill.
• Lin Ming and his group recognized the wings as remains of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and considered the risks of possessing them.
• Old Man Baoshan set the asking price at a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill with Four-color Pill Lightning.
• A cloaked figure offered the required pill, and no other attendee raised the bid.
• Old Man Baoshan handed the wings to the bidder, who stored them away.

Old Man Baoshan auctioned the Adamantine Glazed Body, a Heaven Tier Low-grade physical Dou Technique, and a bidder won it with a water-attribute cultivation method. He then introduced the Four Directions Ember Cauldron, drawing Lin Ming’s interest as the next auction began.

• Old Man Baoshan presented the Adamantine Glazed Body and explained its formidable defensive and offensive power.
• Four bidders offered Heaven Tier Low-grade water-attribute cultivation methods in exchange for the Dou Technique.
• Old Man Baoshan selected one cultivation method, and a silent black-robed man received the Adamantine Glazed Body.
• Lin Ming secretly marked the winning bidder, intending to track him later.
• Old Man Baoshan introduced the Four Directions Ember Cauldron, and Lin Ming considered its value as an additional medicinal cauldron.

Lin Ming bid on the Four Directions Ember Cauldron but withdrew when a mysterious bidder offered an incomplete Heaven Tier soul cultivation method. He and his companions watched the trade fair continue, waiting for the more important treasures still to come.

• Lin Ming offered a Six-Colored Pill Lightning Clear Heart Condensing Spirit Pill for the Four Directions Ember Cauldron.
• A black shadow outbid Lin Ming with the first half of the Heaven Tier Low-grade Spirit Nourishing Art, and Lin Ming and the other bidders withdrew.
• Old Man Baoshan awarded the Four Directions Ember Cauldron to the black shadow, whose unusual offer made Lin Ming curious.
• A black shadow exchanged a Heaven Tier Low-grade Blood Prison Slash for the Space-Rending halberd.
• A bidder won the Great Void Wandering Dragon Steps with three Six-Colored Pill Lightning tier 8 pills, and refiners acquired the Star Core with rare beast blood and ores.
• Lin Ming and his group watched the remaining trades from their corner and conserved their strength for the auction's finale.

At the auction, Lin Ming bought the Heavenly Netherworld Poison Canon for Xiao Yi Xian, recognizing its potential to help her control and develop her Calamity Poison Body. The auction continued with more rare treasures, while Lin Ming and his group mostly watched.

• Old Man Baoshan introduced the Heavenly Netherworld Poison Canon, an inheritance of the Heavenly Netherworld Poison Saint, and explained its dangers and exchange requirements.
• Lin Ming noticed Xiao Yi Xian's interest in the poison canon and decided to obtain it for her.
• Lin Ming outbid the other bidders with two Soul Forging Pills with Five-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Old Man Baoshan awarded the canon to Lin Ming, who handed it to a moved Xiao Yi Xian.
• The auction continued, including a Cultivation Method for cultivating Star Fire that Lin Ming declined to bid on.

At the auction, Lin Ming won the Great Evolution Golden Radiance Art, a peak Heaven Tier Low-grade Gold Element cultivation method, for Ya Fei. The transaction left Ya Fei thrilled and the other bidders wary of Lin Ming’s resources.

• Old Man Baoshan introduced the Great Evolution Golden Radiance Art and explained its power and origins.
• Lin Ming decided to obtain the cultivation method for Ya Fei, whose current Profound Tier High-grade method limited her growth.
• Several powerful bidders competed for the scroll with rare pills and treasures.
• Lin Ming offered four Six-Colored Pill Lightning Tier 8 Pills, and the other bidders stopped bidding.
• Old Man Baoshan awarded Lin Ming the scroll, and Lin Ming completed the transaction by handing over four jade bottles.
• Lin Ming reassured the excited Ya Fei as the auction hall regarded him with envy and wariness.

At the Ancient Treasure Pavilion trade fair, Old Man Baoshan auctioned a fragment map linked to the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame, and Lin Ming recognized it as the final piece he needed. While the crowd bid furiously, Lin Ming stayed out of the contest and planned to take the map from its eventual buyer after the fair.

• Old Man Baoshan presented a weathered fragment map as the trade fair’s second-to-last item.
• Lin Ming recognized the map as the final Pure Lotus Demonic Flame fragment he had been searching for.
• Old Man Baoshan announced that the map was linked to the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame and would be exchanged for Tier 8 medicinal pills with Six-Colored Pill Lightning or better.
• Auction participants drove the bids rapidly upward, offering increasingly valuable medicinal pills.
• Lin Ming declined to bid, intending to let the eventual buyer pay the high price and then seize the map through a deal after the fair.

After the trading fair revealed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s emergence, Lin Ming’s group pursued the buyer of the remnant map tied to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. They hid in the desert and prepared to ambush the Cloud Rain Sect, whose three leaders arrived as the chapter ended.

• The remnant map went to the same buyer as in the original work, and Old Man Baoshan announced the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s emergence before ending the fair.
• Lin Ming told Elder Yao that they would seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree later and declared they had to take Gu Tu from the map’s buyer first.
• Lin Ming led Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei to a remote desert and concealed them in the void to wait for the buyer’s group.
• Lin Ming explained that the Cloud Rain Sect raised women as furnaces and described its three leaders: Tian Xie Zi, Di Xie Zi, and Ren Xie Zi.
• Lin Ming sensed the three Cloud Rain Sect leaders approaching, and the group readied their abilities and weapons for battle.

Lin Ming and Elder Yao ambushed the three Cloud Rain Sect elders to seize their remnant map. Elder Yao wounded them with his Half Sage power, and Lin Ming captured all three with his soul power and sent them into his inner world.

• Lin Ming secretly tracked Tian Xie Zi, Di Xie Zi, and Ren Xie Zi as they crossed the desert, then ordered the ambush to begin.
• Elder Yao intercepted the three Cloud Rain Sect elders and demanded the remnant map and their lives.
• Elder Yao attacked with Space Annihilation, and the three elders countered with the Three Scorpion Yin Fiend Palm but were pushed back and injured.
• Tian Xie Zi called for the Three Scorpion Heavenly Demon Formation, but Lin Ming's soul pressure crushed the trio's will to resist.
• Lin Ming formed a giant soul hand, captured Tian Xie Zi, Di Xie Zi, and Ren Xie Zi, and sent them into his inner world.